Dog saved from burning Peabody home
PEABODY — A small dog was pulled from a home that was ablaze on Connors Road in Peabody on Saturday afternoon. Flames were showing out a front window…
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Man taken to hospital as fire destroys Gloucester home
GLOUCESTER — At least one person was taken to the hospital as a blaze ripped through a home at 62 Woodward Ave. on Saturday afternoon. Fire Chief Eric…
Read more Man taken to hospital as fire destroys Gloucester homeAC smoke temporarily evacuates Brown School Apartments
PEABODY — A smoking air conditioner unit forced an evacuation of the Brown School Residences’ rear building overnight Monday. Firefighters were called to the complex at 200 Lynn…
Read more AC smoke temporarily evacuates Brown School ApartmentsTwo-car accident shuts down Route 128
MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA — A two-car accident on the northbound side of Route 128 in Manchester-by-the-Sea late Wednesday night forced authorities to close a portion of the highway and sent…
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Two dead, two hospitalized in pick-up truck crash on I-495 in Methuen
METHUEN — A pick-up truck crash on Interstate 495 north left two people dead and two injured around 6 a.m. Saturday, according to the Essex County District Attorney’s…
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Man killed in Peabody trailer home fire
PEABODY — A 72-year-old man was killed in a trailer park fire early Saturday morning. Flames broke out in a trailer home on lot 24 of the Peabody…
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Explosives found buried in Rowley forest
ROWLEY — A man using a metal detector Thursday in the state forest off Route 1 uncovered a box of explosives that authorities say had been buried there…
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9/11 Remembered on the North Shore
DANVERS — At 8:46 a.m., American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Centers in New York City. At 9:03 a.m., United Airlines…
Read more 9/11 Remembered on the North ShoreSalem Harbor boater suffers head injury
The Salem Harbormaster’s office reported Sunday that a man suffered a head injury after he was ejected from one boat and struck by another. The man, who was…
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Woman dies in Georgetown blaze
GEORGETOWN — A woman died early Sunday in a four-alarm house fire on East Main Street. Firefighters rescued the seriously injured woman from the second story of the…
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Ukraine accuses Russia of blowing up dam near Kherson; flood could displace thousands
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam and hydroelectric power station in a part of southern Ukraine they control,…
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Sonic boom heard across D.C. area as fighter jet scrambles in response to flight of small plane through restricted airspace
WASHINGTON (AP) — A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation’s capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane…
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Is it safe to live near recycling centers? Questions surge after Indiana plastics site burns.
As the fire at an Indiana plastics-recycling storage facility burned over several days and officials scrambled to calm evacuated residents and measure air quality, larger safety questions emerged…
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East Palestine derailment: Norfolk Southern sued by Justice Department and EPA
The Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency have filed a complaint against Norfolk Southern Corp. for unlawful discharge of pollutants and hazardous substances in the Feb. 3…
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The Great War Tries Once Again To Bring WW1 To Video Games
For such a momentous period in human history, the First World War has been relatively under-served by video games. Mostly because the defining theatre of the conflict—the nightmarish…
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Arctic blast threatens negative-50ºF temperatures in New England, while Texas power grid is again sputtering
Rising temperatures offered some hope Friday for frustrated Texans days after they lost power — and in many cases heat — in a deadly winter storm, while a…
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Amazon gets 3 more warehouse-safety citations as OSHA warns company to ‘take these injuries seriously’
The federal government on Wednesday hit Amazon.com Inc. with worker-safety related citations and penalties at three more warehouses, two weeks after issuing citations at the company’s warehouses in…
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Ford Stock Falls. Don’t Let $1.7 Billion Truck Rollover Trial Distract You.
Ford Motor has a legal hearing set to start Monday related to a product liability case that resulted in a $1.7 billion punitive award against the auto maker.…
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